Community News

Come and be part of a unique experience brought to you by the Llano Art Guild on Monday, February 6, 2012 at 10:00am. The location will be Sheri Zoch’s “Sapphire Studio” at 700 E. Green St. in Llano. Sheri, who’s art name is “Sapphire”, will demonstrate how to Fuse Glass and will furnish all participants their own piece of glass and glass powders to work on.

The Llano Junior Woman’s Culture Club held a luncheon at Schorlemmer Hall in St. James Lutheran Church in Llano on Sunday, January 22, 2012. The money raised at this successful event will help them with other projects such as scholarships for Llano High School graduates, Coats for Kids, Adopt-A-Family, Llano New Horizons, Llano Food Pantry donations and more.

The Llano Tea Party is hosting a Candidate Forum on February 2 at Inman’s Kitchen in Llano. All candidates facing opposition in the April 3 primary elections, including County, State and National races, have been invited to participate. With the filing deadline for Texas Primary Elections extended to February 1 there may be candidates LTP has not yet identified.

Kingsland Little League will be conducting their final registration day on January 28, 2012 from 10:00am-2:00pm. Children ages 4 years to 14 years who live with in the Kingsland Little Leage boundaries are eligible to enroll to play baseball and girls softball. Registration is required even if the child played previously. Registration will be held at Kingsland Little League Fields.

The Llano High School combined varsity and junior varsity squads recently performed a cheer routine as pre-game entertainment on the floor of the AT&T Center before tip-off of the San Antonio Spurs v. Denver Nuggets basketball game on Saturday, January 7. Initially, the cheerleaders signed up to compete in their first cheerleading competition in the novice category; however, the competition was cancelled when the NBA contract dispute was resolved. The San Antonio Spurs staf ...

“Cooking Well with Diabetes,” a three-week cooking school offered by Texas AgriLife Extension Service and Scott and White Hospital - Llano, will teach participants how to select ingredients and prepare foods that will promote healthy eating habits for individuals with diabetes. Classes will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on three Thursdays in a row: February 9, February 16, and February 23, 2012.

Llano IDEA Lab LLC was established in order to stimulate and foster the development of small commercial enterprises that can operate within and to the benefit of our community in Llano. The IDEA Lab meets at least once each month – usually at the Llano ISD Tech Center. At our last meeting on Thursday, January 12, Frank Rowell – a member of the IDEA Lab and proprietor of Enchanted Rocks and Jewelry on the Courthouse Square – demonstrated a piece of equipment developed ...

This Friday night January 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, January 28 at 4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the historic LanTex Theater, the Extension Education Club will treat you to the zany antics of the Muppets, starring James Segel and Amy Adams and Chris Cooper. The proceeds will help fund their projects, which includes local scholarships. With the help of three fans, the gang must reunite to save their old theater from a greedy oil tycoon.

Brandie N. Hussion has announced her candidacy in the April Republican Primary for Llano County Attorney against incumbent, Cheryll Mabray. Brandie is the current City Prosecutor for the City of Sunrise Beach, where she lives with her husband, Travis, and their three year old daughter, Jordan. Mrs. Hussion received her BBA in management in 2001 from Baylor University and her Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law in 2006.

Another semester of dual credit courses at Llano High School has begun and for several students, attendance in these courses was made possible from the generous scholarship donation of the Hill Country Higher Education Foundation (HCHEF). Tom Shaw appeared on Tuesday (ironically, after a presentation to our Senior class this morning by Llano National Bank’s Craig Bauman, on financial literacy) with a generous check made payable to Central Texas College for $1,400.